Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Infocom Game Sequel

Interesting read about work on the sequel to the game they never got past early development.  I think Spellbreaker was the hardest infocom game I played besides this.  Hollywood Hijinks was probably the most fun one I finished.  Or maybe is was fun because I did finish it.

http://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_sequel_to_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galax/

http://www.infocom-if.org/games/games.html

Coming Soon in 2012... The State of My Video Game Collection, Grading My R2D2, and The Year in Concerts Review

Cool Houses

I enjoy going to fark.com because sometimes a post is really great.  http://www.simondale.net/house/links.htm

This family built a small house in a hill.

Even more reusable house stuff.  http://solarark.org/

http://www.dickproenneke.com/

http://www.ccathsu.com/alternativebuilding/cob/jeffreySP2005/index.html#england

New post on misflix

The Lost Art of the Roller Skating Opening Sequence

Post I did over at misflix.com.  You can enjoy a movie even when you know it's bad.

I've finished portal 2 single player. Very funny game. I still need to do multi player.

Now that PSN I've been Playing a lot of Call of Duty Black Opps. That damn gun game.

New Layout

This might be too green. 

I've recently completed red dead redemption and demon's soul and Tron. I'm slowing working on the backlog of ps3 games

Little Houses

http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/tiny_houses.html

I never realized that the rhythm section in "9 to 5" starts with a typewriter. Either I wasn't paying attention at age 8 or I have better headphones now.

Otaku

Finished dead rising 2 with s ending yesterday. I will never look at a trash cart the same way.

I mistakenly Downloaded the accapella version of 99 problems from iTunes.

Had a breakout session with Nic, Eddie, snowman, droid bodyguard, and Aayla. The task: to determine my current awesome level. The results: somewhere between "pretty" and "totally".

Danzig

Deth Red Sabaoth

Is really good.   

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly

Girly (aka Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly) (1969)


The beauty of netflix is that sometimes you just find good stuff.  Girly was listed and I almost didn't watched because the one sheet looked like some gross out slasher.  But it was british from the late 60's so figured it was safe.  The violence is off screen.  Taken at is face value it's more f'ed up psychological tennessee williams vibe.  Behind the themes are more along with roles in British society.  It reminded me alot of The Prisoner...which is good thing.
The Prisoner: The Complete Series

Labyrinth soundtrack

I'm sucker for the amazon $5 dollar downloads.  They have Labyrinth soundtrack this month.

Labyrinth  I really did not like early 80's bowie but did like this soundtrack and the movie.  I only started listening to 70s bowie and finding out how good it is. 



I've been listening to Spoon a lot today.  Specifically underdog.  Kind of a 70's billy joel vibe.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Spoilerish.  I broke down and bought and read it.  I think the tipping point was the day it was on the cover of Entertainment weekly and the movie version was streaming on Netflix.  I kind of wanted to see the movie but knowing there was a book felt compelled to read it frist.

So after reading it...I have no idea how it got popular.  To clarify...I liked it.  I'm just surprised that such a slow passed split personality style book is a worldwide phenom.  I don't ever want to read Twilight...but I can at least understand the appeal of it.  I don't understand the appeal of bad writting but if it's vampires I guess.

I ended up pretending this was a sci-fi book because otherwise I would drown in all of the names, currency, political, and geographicaly stuff I had no reference too.  The girl is only in 10% of th first 300 pages and in that something bad happens to her...and then something really really bad happens to her.  She is a compelling character and her attempts to connect and become more human is really interesting. 

So after I read it I immediatly watched the movie version.  It was eh.  I guess I should have waiting a while.  As I was reading the book pretty much could tell what was going to be included.  It mainly focuses on the 40 year old mystery.  However I think left a lot of Salander's attempts for for normal human existance out.  This is a woman how has to remind herself that actions have consequences.  It's as if her original guardian had to install Terminator logic inter her so she could better deal with others.  And as long as I'm nit picking mikael should never have made a big deal about her being hacker.  One of their important moments in the book was the fact that he didn't use the power over her and in dropped it altogether.

Subway cheese steak

I ate this in Ted's Name.  I hope the offering works.

Secret of Monkey Island

The classic version on the opening song.  I played the special edition again on steam.   The SE of LeChuck's revenge is out now.  It's also on Itunes but will probably do the steam.  I have the orignal cd but it's worth the money to not have to mess around getting it work.